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Matinee: 'People Powered'
12 July 2025
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 612th in our series of Saturday matinees today: People Powered.
This 2:16 video from Huckleberry Creative features adventure photographer Forrest Mankins, based in Montana, talking about his urge to get in the truck and drive over the crest of the hill in front of him to explore "what's on the other side of that hill."
It led him from the plains of Oklahoma to the peaks of Alaska.
But he ran out of land and started to realize there was something else to capture besides the landscapes.
It was the people he met.
They brought more depth and enjoyment to his photography and his life in general, he found.
So he's going to drive over that hill in front of him again but not just to see the landscape. He'll spend some time with the people who live there. "It's really the people who live in a place that make it what it is," he says.